MORE VINTAGE

i fall for "old time" beautiful hand crochet hankies.

i remember my mother handing us girls sweet little hankies before church.

we used them as hankies when needed but  mom always had extras that were clean and ironed to pinned  on our heads if we forgot our hats before entering the church.

hankies were so useful and played a rather large important roll in our life's.

i miss them :(

when i ran into this sale ......well i just had to rescue all these beauties.

i must of brought home 10-12 lovely hankies.

are they not just beautiful!

i might just have to pin one on my head and go to church.

but anyone under 50 would wonder "what is on that women's' head"?

they do not even have a priest at this parish over 50 years.

 i will just have to pin a hankie on my head, tie an apron on me and clean my house remembering the days when it was "normal" to have a hankie on one's head.

sweet, sweet

great crochet bloomer hot pad holder,

they are too cute to use!

this is a great book, an easy read about the life of aunt jane in the by gone days.

love it !

VINTAGE FINDS

one of my favorite things to do is rummage through flea markets and estate sales.

well i found the mother load at a flea market booth....50% off everything i LOVE.

golden books, aprons, beautiful hankies , pot holder, old books and wonderful glass ware.

oh i could of bought the entire booth but i already own several of the same item in the booth.

so i only came home with things that made my heart swell !

more pics tomorrow :p

DROP ZONE

i'm smitten with a good home cooked meal.

and nothing screams home made like a good stew and buttermilk biscuits!

on really hot days i pull out the slow cooker and fill it with "what evers",

meaning what ever needs to be used up in the frig.

since we are not big meat eaters in the summer when it is really hot , a soup bone is all that is needed for that good ole fashion meaty taste.

 simmering the bone with some meat on it releases wonderful minerals, things like calcium, vitamin B12, linoleic acid and palmitoleic acid. all this wonderful STUFF is what keeps our bodies going.

they help fight pathogens and viruses as well as lower cholesterol and have anti-cancer effects!

i know red meat and bones.

why oh why have we been told for the past 40 years to eat synthetic foods?

so let me tell you this was oh so tasty.

we ate on this stew for several days and the little that was left we shared with the puppies.

{ yes they were grinning ear to ear }

something else i love about a meal such as this is the simplicity of it all. a little meat, lots of veggies, biscuits, simple spices.. hmmmm.

doesn't get better than this!

my kitchen table seems to be the drop zone for everything from A to Z.

some days { more often than not lately } their is no room to eat at the table....ugggg!

i'm trying to daily clean off the table so we can use it for the purpose it was designed for,

sharing meals together!

we all have drop zones in our homes and some how the kitchen table became ours after the children were grown and gone.

i must of been an organized mom when i had young children

because now with fewer people to pick up after things seem to be going to the dogs!

what are some of your favorite summer recipes?

and where is your drop zone?

GARDEN JOURNAL

marigold

beans

 some more beans

and some more beans

we love green beans!

planted some more peppers, tomatoes, marigolds and sun flowers!

love love sun flowers

oh yes i have... 

harvested 2 onions so far.

flowers, i love flowers in the garden!

 see those little tomatoes on the vine above?

little house garden is looking fairly good this week.

have spent a lot of time watering all growing things out doors !

i believe i am going to pick more of this lovely lettuce for dinner!

how is your garden growing?

CLOSING THE FRONT GATE

i'm "closing the front gate" sorta speaking.

see, i don't have a front gate to my property, so i closed down the front of the house to make it look like no one is home. 

i then hide out in the back yard and the back of the house.

i get in these moods to stay by myself often after having spent way too much time at the hospital working.

yes, i admit work totally drains every fiber and brain cell in this aging body of mine.

it is mostly dealing with people that drains  me not necessarily the "work".

on my days off  i like to hang out with my dogs and my garden.

walking around the yard checking out each and every plant.

seeing which plant may need an extra support stake or who will need to be watered today

my new plants that i planted at the beginning of the week are doing well,

they have established themselves nicely in the soil.

i believe the rain we had yesterday gave them that extra little boost.

picked a lot of this chard this morning for my watermelon, blueberry, yogurt, chard smoothie.

it was delish!

i love all the variety i can put into a smoothie...

using up fruit that is turning too fast and garden edibles that add just that extra punch of needed nutrition.

yes, closing the front gate and recharging at home fills my soul with contentment.

i spent the morning fluffing the nest inside and out.

cleaned out some drawers, put 2 loads of laundry on the beloved line, then sat on the back porch and dreamed of the day's possibilities.

yes today is my day to recharge!

YARN ALONG

just finished another shawl.

more pics later after blocking.

am reading the 

Liars Club

love it, well written, funny and sad ! everything i love in a book.

linking up with

ginny

and 

Yarn Along

HAPPY 4TH